venake:

I tried my hand at making a voidpunk flag! 😀

the purple and green represent ace, aro, nb and nd people. the circle in the middle represents a black hole, hence the lack of humanity/dehumanization. the white represents the unity of our communities.

what do you guys think?

please help me,,, i don’t know what voidpunk is and at this point i’m too afraid to ask

mysterious-transmissions:

don’t be afraid, friend! voidpunk is awesome! i shall now attempt to explain it in a concise and intelligible way

voidpunk is a subculture that aims to reclaim dehumanization. it started in the aromantic community (it was specifically coined by @arotaro ), which is a community that deals with dehumanization a lot. 

aromantic people are often told that we are less than human because we don’t experience romantic attraction, and historically the response of aromantic people has been to insist that we’re human. what voidpunk does is turns that on its head and says “so what if we aren’t?” it takes the power away from dehumanizing arguments, because how can it hurt us to say we aren’t human if we don’t care about being human in the first place?

so yeah, it started in the aromantic community, but has also been adopted by aces, nonbinary people, autistic folk, and generally anyone else who’s told they’re not human because of the way they are, and its awesome and i love it

tl;dr: people told aromantics that we’re not human, we said “lol who cares” and started drawing pictures of ourselves as robots and black holes and stuff